Unannealed Pinions Causes Ford To Recall Vehicles
"Ford’s quality control appears to be getting worse. The Dearborn-based automaker somehow forgot to anneal the front axle pinions that equip certain F-150, Expedition, and Lincoln Navigator vehicles. By not receiving the proper heat treatment, said pinions are prone to fracture, resulting in the...
Busch Acquires VESCO-McLaughlin-A Pattern
Earlier this week "The Monty Heat Treat News" was the first to announce the acquisition of the VESCO Division of McLaughlin Furnace Group by Busch Vacuum Solutions US. The news was not unexpected and represents a very good business decision by both groups in the humble opinion of "The Monty Heat...
Used Furnace And Equipment Listings
“The Monty” has one of the largest listings for used heat treating equipment in North America. Below you will find our two most recent additions and also a categorized listing by furnace type. If you don’t find what you are looking for let us know and we will find it for you. Have equipment to sell? We are here to find you a buyer, just drop a line to [email protected]
Cincinnati Steel Treating Appoints Operations Manager
Cincinnati Steel Treating enjoys a long and very impressive history in the commercial heat treating industry which goes back to 1941. Their capabilities include nitriding, hardening, induction, carburizing and aluminum processing to name just a few CST: Heat Treating Services & Metal Treating of...
Titanium Foundry Adds Furnace
"L&L Special Furnace has delivered a highly uniform, front-loading box furnace to a northeastern US supplier of titanium castings for the aerospace and power generation fields. The company deals with exotic metals such as nickel and cobalt-based alloys that are ideal for superior products using...
UPC-Marathon awarded Pit Furnace Controls Upgrade at Overton Chicago Gear
"Obsidian Technical Group and Dana Liebelt with the support of UPC-Marathon, a Nitrex Company, have secured a contract to upgrade the furnace controls for Overton Chicago Gear, a leading US manufacturer of gears and gearboxes. The project will include all-new carburizing controls for a large pit...
Busch Vacuum Solutions U.S. Acquires VESCO-McLaughlin, Inc.
Last week "The Monty Heat Treat News" had a press release about an acquisition within the global heat treatment community. We are now in a position where we can mention the names of the companies involved. Below you will find the official press release. "Busch Vacuum Solutions U.S. has announced...
Cincinnati Steel Treating Adding Batch IQ Capacity
Lets start with some background on commercial heat treater Cincinnati Steel Treating one of the largest in the Ohio area; “The Cincinnati Steel Treating Company was founded in 1941 to accommodate the gear industry’s metal treating needs in the Cincinnati, Ohio area. By 1950 CST had diversified and...
Josh Longenette Appointed VP Operations at Bodycote
Josh Longenette was recently appointed Vice President of Operations at heat treating giant Bodycote. Josh previously worked at Bodycote before taking a brief hiatus outside of the heat treating industry. He follows in the footsteps of his father Don Longenette who after a long career with companies...
Michael Mathews, UTC Aerospace, UK
Now here is an interesting twist. Michal Mathews worked as a field service engineer for Vacuum Furnace Engineering Ltd., in West Midlands, UK for a couple of years. He enjoyed the vacuum furnace industry so much that he just recently became a Furnace Engineer at UTC Aerospace Systems Telford,...
Heat Treatment Chile
Recently we at "The Monty" had the chance to visit Chile, largely for pleasure but also partly for business. Based upon that visit we have this brief summary about the captive and commercial heat treatment industry in that country-and it will be brief based upon the amount of heat treating;There are...
April Fools Day/Thermal Process Holdings
As part of our Monday Morning Briefing we had a note about commercial heat treater Thermal Process Holdings (John Hubbard's group) being poised to expand to almost $200 million USD in annual sales in the very near future.While we hope that this does prove to be true at some point in time this is not...
Monday Morning Briefing
From commercial heat treater Accurate Steel Treating in Southgate, CA, USA we have this mention; “I'm very pleased to announce that Geoff Monti has joined Accurate Steel Treating (AST) as Director of Special Projects and Metallurgy. Geoff’s initial assignments will include developing and refining...
Alloy Theft
There can’t be a captive or commercial heat treater in North America who has not at some point been the victim of “alloy theft”. By alloy theft we mean a few base trays, baskets or muffles disappearing out the back door and turning up at the local scrap yard. Probably because the price of alloy has...
ALD Vacuum Technologies Changes
Last week we mentioned how ALD Vacuum Technologies (manufacturers of vacuum and vacuum carburizing systems) was going through some major changes. The changes involved their divisions in the USA, Germany and India. In the USA we have been lead to believe that the President of the division in Michigan...